FRANCE-HAWAI’I Non-Profit Association aims at promoting the Hawaiian culture in France by organizing performances, cultural and artistic exchanges, and art exhibits, with a special focus on the Hawaiian traditional dances and chants (Hula) presented by the dance group HALAU HULA O MANOA.
The dance school, or Halau Hula O Manoa, was founded in 1992 by Sandra Kilohana SILVE, who has since then been teaching about twenty dancers. In 2005, she moved back to the Manoa Valley in order to pursue her training in the Arts of Hula, but keeps visiting her students in Paris on regular basis to gives classes and workshops to the Halau and her assistant dancers (Maile Kaku, Leilehua Multz, Leilani Thill, Noelani & Uluwehi Coelho Da Silva).
Halau Hula O Manoa performances
France : • Festival Surf, Palais des festivals, Biarritz,1994. • Festival Polynésien, Paris, 1995 & 1996. • Musée de l’Homme, Paris, November 1997. • Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1997. • 3ème Festival Musiques et Images du Monde, Salle des Halles, Tours, 2002. • Conservatoire Russe de Paris Serge Rachmaninoff, 75016 Paris, 2000-2004. • Festival Paris Quartier d'Eté, Jardin des Tuileries, July 2006. • Musée du Quai Branly, Théâtre de verdure, in partnership with Paris quartier d'Eté, 2008. • Charity for the Nat Association, Théâtre Adyar, Paris: October 2008 & 2009. • Festival Escales d'ailleurs, Plaisir, June 13, 2009. • 7th edition of the Festival des cultures du monde, University of Cergy-Pontoise, March 2010. • Musée de Rouen, Rouen, May 14, 2011. • 30th edition of the Fete de la musique, with the Hula Serenaders, Place du Palais Royal, Paris, 2011. • Festival des arts d'Hawai'i, June 20th - July 7th 2012 : - Festival la nuit des livres (literary festival in nothern France), Esquelbeck (59). - Festival des contes, (story telling festival in nothern France Quaëdypre (59). - Théâtre de Ménilmontant, Paris.
International : • Honolulu Hale Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2005. • Academy of Arts Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2005. • World International Hula competition, Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 6-8 November 2008. • International Hula Festival, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 18.11.08. • World International Hula competition, Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 10-12.11.09. • Festival Giornate internazionali della danza, La Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II, Milan, Italy, April 2009. • Roxy Surf Festival, Ostia, Italy, April 2009. • World International Hula Competition, Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,10-12 November 2011. • Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico, "Luigi Pigorini", Rome, ITALY, October 2013. • World Invitational Hula Festival, Chigasaki, Japan, September 2013. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co productions :
Hopoe Kilohana Silve co-produced “Hopoe” with choreographer Anne-Laure Rouxel, from the Cincle Plongeur Company. “Hopoe” is a choreographed show designed for a young audience, performed 141 times over France and Europe at, among other locations: the Scène nationale de Bonlieu (Annecy, France) in 2004, the Dunois Theatre (Paris, France), the TJP (Strasbourg, France), and the Espace Malraux (Joué-les-Tours, France).